'Gumshoe' work leads to arrest in 4-year-old killing

Arrest made 4 years after slaying

8:17 PM,
Apr. 11, 2013

Corey White

Written by

Janice Morse

On South 11th Street in Hamilton, neighbors would walk or drive past the house where Steven Denmark was shot to death during a home-invasion robbery in 2009 - and they'd wonder whether anyone would ever be prosecuted, said Cindy Hernandez, who lives around the corner.

"The poor guy was shot," she said. She and another neighbor, Alicia Lopez, 22, were astounded to hear that police had arrested a suspect Thursday, nearly four years after Denmark, 30, was killed .

Lopez, who recalled being frightened on the night that Denmark was slain, said the arrest gives her more confidence that city police ...